TAKING in the parade of patterns at the spring fashion shows was like watching seven rival marching bands converge at a four-way intersection — talk about your clash of symbols.
The story he tells about "Lambchops" — and of the intersection of talking pictures with vaudeville and radio — is memorable; he quotes George Burns on the transition: "On one show we'd done about half our act; we still had half an act left and only twenty years to fill".
This, too, sounded highly implausible – until this week in Richmond, British Columbia, near the Vancouver airport, when I was startled as the lamppost in the intersection started talking to me – in this case, instructing me on how to cross (as though I were blind or partially sighted).
In the same way that "The Sopranos" and the "Analyze This" movies mine the humor found at the intersection of the talking cure and tough-guy omertà, Ames's book pits the self-lacerating gush of alcoholism-in-transition against the cool detachment of the English hospitality industry; "Wake Up, Sir!" is a Wodehouse novel for the recovery era.
There were about half-a-dozen squeegee punks within a 50-metre radius of the intersection, standing and talking, smoking, and washing windshields in traffic.
We did find some differences in the rates of distracted behaviors between the two intersections, with fewer pedestrians talking on a cell phone while crossing intersection A that had stenciled warnings about walking while looking down at a device.
Redes is still trying to figure out what kind of manhole he can get in at the Church Street intersection, and he is talking to the engineers about a cantilevered design -- it's the only thing that will fit.
Their duties include staffing routes and intersections used by commuters, talking to cyclists, raising consciousness; also partnering with local businesses, providing stopping points and refreshments for commuters; and joining police precincts, doing work educating cyclists while the NYPD talks to drivers.
In the address at the Assembly of God Church here, Ms. Palin's ease in talking about the intersection of faith and public life was clear.
